On 7/7/16 3:01 PM, Todd Merriman wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> IFS=' ' # TAB
> program_outputting_tab_delimited_fields |
> while read -r FLD1 FLD2 FLD3 FLD4
> do
> echo field1=$FLD1
>
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 03:01:31PM -0400, Todd Merriman wrote:
> IFS=' ' # TAB
> If any fields are empty, the data is read into the preceding field.
> In other words, if in the example FLD3 is empty, FLD4 is read into
> FLD3. If FLD2 and FLD3 are empty, FLD4 is r
